Hi all.
I've got some LiveElements in an Athena page to which I want to attach event
handlers. Their XHTML is stan-based.
What I've got right now (which works) is something like this, which I've
understood is the Right Way to do it if you're explicitly using inline
Javascript:
_js = (
"Nevow.Athena.Widget.get(this).keyPressed(this, event); " +
"return false;"
)
docFactory = loaders.stan (
T.div (
render = T.directive ( 'liveElement' ),
) [
"Blah Text Label",
T.input (
type = "text",
_class = "sw-input",
onkeyup = _js,
),
T.div ( _class = "sw-output" ) [ "Blah More Text" ],
]
)
There are messages in the mailing list (for example, from JP on October 11th
2006) recommending that one should use the athena:handler feature, like this:
<textarea>
<athena:handler event="onkeypress" handler="keyPressed" />
</textarea>
However, if one has stan-based rather than file-based XHTML, it's neither
documented nor obvious how this should be done. I've managed to get this far:
from nevow import stan
...
_athena = stan.Proto (
'athena:handler event="onkeypress" handler="keyPressed"'
)
...
T.input ( type = "text", _class = "sw-input" ) [ _athena ]
This serialises OK, but it doesn't work, because the node doesn't get
rewritten; that is, the generated XHTML contains the athena:handler node
verbatim.
Now, rewriteEventHandlerNodes() in Nevow/nevow/athena.py (around line 962)
seems to traverse the tree looking for athena:handler nodes and replacing
them with "Nevow.Athena.Widget.handleEvent()" Javascript, so I presume that
the node I'm creating fails to get identified as an athena:handler node
because I'm creating it incorrectly.
What is the correct way to create such a node such that it gets picked up by
rewriteEventHandlerNodes()?
Regards,
Ricky